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A Study of Archival Reference Service through Freedom of Information Act: Strauss and Corbin’s Grounded Theory

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2014, 25(1), pp.265-294
  • DOI : 10.14699/kbiblia.2014.25.1.265
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Youn, Eunha ORD ID 1 배삼열 1 심갑용 1 Yong Kim 1

1전북대학교

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ABSTRACT

The study aims to identify the procedural problems of the archival reference service through Freedom of Information Act. Since FOIA enacted in 1998, there has been a rapid increase of use of government information. However, most of academic users tend to be strongly dissatisfied with the user service. The authors argue that archival reference service through FOIA substantially prevents researchers from using archival records for their research and lower researcher’s visits to archival institutions. For this, the study conducted 19 in-depth interviews of academic users and analyzed how FOIA influence academic user’s information behaviors based on Strauss and Corbin’s grounded theory.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.